Folding chair.



J. C. BENNETT. FOLDING CHAIR.

' APPLIGATION FILED JAN .10, 1908.

902,471. Patented Oct. 27,1908.

JUDSON o. BENNETT, or BROOKTOX-NEW Your;

FOLDING CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

Application filed January 10; 1908. Serial No. 410,176.

To attic/30m it may concern:

Be it known that 'I, JUDSOX U. BENNETT, a

citizen of'the United States, residing at Brookton, in the county of Tompkins and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Folding Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in folding chairs, and the object of the invention is to provide an auxiliary chair especially adapted for use in connection with the ordinary .chair employed in barbers shops, whereby a small seat adapted for childrens use may be positioned upon the ordinary chair, and when not in use folded within a small compass and stored until again needed. To these ends the invention resides in the novel construction of folding chairs herein after fully described and' claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a folding chair constructed in accordance with my invention, and showing the same in applied position upon a barbers chair. Fig. '2 is a side elevation showing the chair folded. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of the improved chair. perspective view of the seat member of my device.

In the drawings the numeral 1 designates a c-hair of the ordinary construct-ion commonlyemployed for barbers use, having a base and revoluble seat, and the usual back and arms. With the seats constructed in. the ordinary manner the back of the chair is of such a height as to prevent a barber having free access to the head of the child while cutting its hair. The back of the-ordinary chair employed in barbers shops is a permanent fixture to the chair, and a barber seek-- ing to trim or cut the hair of child while seated upon the ordinary chair 1s seriously inconvenienced by the back of the chair being of a greater height than the head of the 1 child. To overcome these difficulties it is necessary to provide a device which will bring the child"s head to a suiiiciently high position to enable the barber to operate without the incomenicnce or being annoyed by bending over the top of the ordinary barbers chair while cutting or trimming the hair of the child, and it is in view of overcoming these diliiculties that I have provided a simple, cheap and efiicient, as well as an attractive folding chair which may readily be positioned upon the arms of the ordinary barbers chair and which may be quickly and Fig. i is a 'arms 5.

. easily folded into a small compassand laid aside when not inuse.

In the drawings the letter A designates a folding chair constructed in accordance with my invention having a back 2, a seat 3, side arms 4, fro lt'arms Bard a foot rest 6. The side arms 4 are hingedly connectei'l to the back as at 7 and are provided upon their opposite extremities with a depending lip 8, adapted for engagemert with a pro ection 9' fOllTlGd upon the upper pm'tion of the front nected 'to the sidearms 4 at 10 and are provided at a point approximately intermediate of their length with shoulders 11, adapted to lie in engagement with the upper face of the seat upon each of its sides and at the front thereof. The front rail 12 of the seat 3 is provided upon each side of the seat with inclined grooves 11. adapted for thereception of the front arms 5 of the chair, and to allow the said arms to lie at a desired inclination. The front arms 5 are secured to the underside of the front rail 12 at it and the front rails are also provided with a foot rest- 6 connpcted therewith by the hinges '14 and beingprovided with suitable chains or other flexible cornrections'JzS to remove strain from the hinges and to sustain the foot reststeadily in position. upon the arms 5.

The seat 3 is provided with a rear rail 12 corresponding with the front rail 12, and likewise projecting beyond the sides of the seat 3, thus allowing the chair to be posi tioned upon the arms of the ordinary barl hers chairs of various sizes, and the rear rail 12 1S hmgedly secured to the back of the chair by the hinges 13.

in connecting my improved folding chair to the barbers chair, the arm 4 and seat 3 are swung downwardly upon the back 2, carrying with then the front arms 5 and the foot rest 6. The side arms 4: are thus brought into Contact with an offset 2 upon the back 2, directly beneath the hinge 7 while the trout arms 5 are brought into position upon the side arms and the seat. The projection 9 of the arms 5 engaging the hp 8 of the side arms -l, and the shoulder 11 resting upon the seat 3, and tl 0 arms engaged within the recesses 11 of the front rail 12. The foot rest 6 is swung into position and the chair ready for being positioned upon the arms of the barbers chair.

In folding my improved chair the foot rest (3 is swung towards the front arms, and

The front arms 5 are hingedly cona is claimed as new 1s:

I applicable toba'rbers chair of various sizes,

' and which may be readily folded and stored the back, side arms hlix. resting uponsaid shoul er; the back and havi1. g

the seat and side arms folded against the back carrying with them -the front arms '5' of the chair, thus foldin' the parts of the chair into a 5mm}; neat and compact'structure. By the 'onstructionjust described, it will be noted that I have provided an extremely simple, strong and effective auxiliary chair for connection with barbers chairs, which is arms and seat, and a foot rest hingedly securedto the side arms.

2. A foldable chair for the pur ose set forth, comprising a back havin a s oulder, side arms provided-with lips rigidly secured to the back and resting upon t e shoulder, front arms hingedly secured to the side arms and provided with a shoulder and a projection adapted to contact the lips of' the side arms, a seat hingedly side arms below the shoulder provided by the back, said seat hingedly secured to the which is easily positioned upon the chair,

away when not in use. a

Having thus-described the invention what l froLt arms. I v c In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' DSON o. BENNETT 1. A ffoldable chair for the pur ose described comprising a back,; a shoul er upon ed to the back and a seat hinged to its rear end extending beneath and resting upon the lower por-tion of the back, front, arms hinged to the side Witnesses: i F. FLMUEKS, I

-D E-W1TT F. Ron. r

connected to the 4 back, and a foot rest hirigedly secured to the 

